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Mega Man 8-Bit Deathmatch Has More Than 50 Weapons
With more than 50 classic Mega Man weapons represented, upcoming fan made game Mega Man 8-Bit Deathmatch has something to kill everyone. The Mega Man 8-Bit Deathmatch Doom mod has come a long way since we showcased it late last year. CutmanMike puts traditional first-person shooter developers to shame with an amazing array of weapons…
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Celebrating Blizzard’s Cultural Legacy
Blizzard co-founders Mike Morhaime, Frank Pearce and Allen Adham were honored this week as Artistic Visionaries as part of Orange County’s 11th annual Cultural Legacy Awards. Photo by Nicholas Koon. Gameface is a photographic celebration of the people who make, play and love video games.
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Running From The Police Sure Looks Like Fun
If high-speed police chases were half as exciting as this Need for Speed: Hot Pursuit trailer makes them out to be, everyone would be doing them. Of course everyone would also need to own a souped-up Porsche. In my experience that is a lot harder to achieve than pissing off the police. I’d expect it…
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Press A To Win ManStruggle
To triumph over their friends in Grab’s new Facebook game ManStruggle, players need to bring their “A” key. How does a developer make a fighting game that is accessible to Facebook’s social-gaming audience? They throw out the complicated parts, like combos, special moves, punching, and kicking. All one needs to do to triumph over their…
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How Video Games Reorganize Your Brain
It is no secret that video games aid players with their hand-eye coordination. A new study shows that playing video games extensively reorganizes how the brain handles difficult visuomotor tasks. Gaming pundits have been pulling out the eye-hand coordination card for as long there have been video games. Seeing things is easy. Manipulating things with…
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A Million New Recruits Join The Clone Wars
If you build a free-to-play massively multiplayer game set in the Star Wars universe, they will come. Sony Online Entertainment reports more than one million registered players a week after the launch of Star Wars: Clone Wars Adventures. It was a real no-brainer for Sony Online Entertainment. Multiplae millions of players flocked to Free Realms,…
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An Epic Tale Of Role-Playing And A Cappella Metal
German a cappella metal band Van Canto makes the free-to-play MMO Runes of Magic look more exciting than it has ever been in this music video for “Magic Taborea.” Those not familiar with Van Canto might see the elaborate costumes and props and wonder why the band would go to so much trouble to market…
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The Old Republic’s Smuggler Gets Its Own Wookie
If a video game is going to feature a character class based primarily on the exploits of Harrison Ford as Han Solo, that class better have a Wookie sidekick. BioWare delivers. Meet Bowdaar, The Old Republic Smuggler’s answer to Chewbacca. After 108 years as a pit fighting slave, Bowdaar developed a warrior’s strength, a strong…
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Zombies Stalk The Streets Of London
“Bring out your undead!” cried Capcom to London Dead Rising fans, urging them to dress in their zombie finest for an early launch event at HMV on Oxford Street. The fans answered. With the popularity of zombies being what it is these days, one might imagine these are just a average group of London young…
By Mike Fahey